Serge Fitoussi is a PADI Platinum Course Director, the founder and owner of U-Dive, a PADI 5 Star IDC facility in Eilat, Israel. The title of Platinum Course Director attests to the highest level of instruction in the domain of scuba diving and ranks Serge among the top 60 PADI Course Directors worldwide out of 145,000 PADI professionals.

Serge is also a specialist in technical diving, equally at ease with scuba gear and with semi-closed and closed circuits. He is a qualified DSAT Tec Rec Trimix Instructor Trainer and DSAT Tec Rec Deep Instructor Trainer and he is now developing the U-Dive technical diving department together with Jonas Samuelsson.

Serge began diving at the age of 13, has over 20,000 dives to date and has always been passionate about the pedagogical aspect of diving. He started as an instructor in 1988 and quickly became one of the leaders of the diving community in Israel. Since then, he has trained thousands of divers at all levels and hundreds of professionals.

With his passion for teaching, Serge has built his reputation on professionalism and integrity. People from all over the world come to be trained by him. With a never ending concern for quality of service and educational needs, he founded U-Dive, his own diving center, in 2006. In 2010, U-Dive received the PADI Award for the “Most Innovative Diving Center in Israel”, and is now one of the most outstanding diving centers in Europe.

Serge works with a highly qualified, friendly, and constantly available staff. U-Dive's ideology focuses on the quality of instruction and personalized customer service.

Serge Fitoussi is French and Israeli. He has lived in Israel since 1981. Serge speaks fluent French (his native language), English, and Hebrew.

Claire Fuzellier has been a PADI Instructor since 2004 and is now a PADI IDC Staff Instructor.  Claire is one of the two U-Dive general managers, with Serge. She is involved in some diving courses with French customers in particular. But most of the time she takes care of U-Dive management and business development. Claire also practices yoga and relaxation and is building special programs related to diving. She is now developing the program “Underwater: Soft Sensation” for people who have diving related fears. About this program, please contact Claire.

Claire is French and has lived in Israel since 2006.  She speaks fluent French, English and better Hebrew now...

Ira Kazhdan is a PADI IDC Staff Instructor and has been working for U-Dive since 2008. She was living in Tel-Aviv and one day decided to leave everything behind in order to become a diving instructor. After 2 intensive months of diving, under the personal supervision of Serge, she gained a Divemaster degree. She has been Serge’s assistant on many IDC’s already. She proved herself as an excellent diving instructor and fast learner with a strong personality that we all love. She is also responsible for the all counter organization, diving shop and sales.

Irena came from Byelorussia and has been living in Israel for more than10 years. She speaks fluent Belarus, Russian and Hebrew.

Efraim Henin is a PADI Master Instructor. He is also Tec Trimix Instructor and in charge of the maintenance of U-Dive Scubapro diving equipment. He came to Israel from the Ukraine in 2004. After having served in the Israeli army until 2008, he discovered scuba diving through U-Dive. Trained by Serge, he gained great experience in teaching recreational diving and is known for his pedagogical skills, his kindness and extreme patience.
Efraim has also practiced free-diving since 1992 and will soon offer free-diving programs and courses at U-Dive.

Efi speaks fluent Ukrainian, Russian and Hebrew.

Yoram Zekri, high-level freediver, multi French record holder and Vice-World Champion AIDA, shares his passion by providing freediving education and training at U-DIVE.

AIDA and CMAS freediving instructor, Yoram welcomes you to this exciting sport by helping you improve in all disciplines of apnea. He will also help you to learn breathing and relaxation techniques, essential to your training.
Classes take place in the sea, at a very accessible site located in front of the diving center, 100 meters from the beach.

You can follow a freediving education program and receive an AIDA certification, or just participate in training classes and receive advice from Yoram.

Thanks to his expertise in teaching freediving and his numerous records in No Limit and Variable Weight, Yoram Zekri will share the true feeling of the Big Blue with you, introducing you to the techniques of deep diving with a sled.